French colonial documentary mythologies of humanitarianism / Peter J. Bloom.

Author/creator Bloom, Peter J.
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Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
Descriptionxiii, 265 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
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Contents Tupi or not Tupi : natural man and the ideology of French Colonial documentary -- Mythologies of the Tirailleurs sénégalais : cinema, shell shock, and French Colonial psychiatry -- Trans-saharan crossing films : colonial cinematic projections of the French automobile -- Diagnosing invisible agents : between the microbiological and the geographic -- Infiltrate the crowd with an idea! Colonial educational cinema and the threat of imitative contagion -- Humanitarian visions and colonial imperatives : Félix-Louis Regnault, Albert Kahn, and Henri Bergson as semiophore-men -- Conclusion : The French colonial media apparatus : natural man and the dialectics of Americanization -- Appendix : Archives and film and media references.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-255) and index.
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ISBN0816646287 (hc : alk. paper)
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